Worker Occupational Safety and Health (WOSH) Specialist Training
One of the goals of WOSHTEP is to train California workers to be Worker Occupational Safety and Health (WOSH) Specialists who will take leadership roles in promoting health and safety in their workplaces. These Specialists can:
- Help promote employers' workplace injury and illness prevention efforts and the
development of an Injury and Illness Prevention Program at their workplace.
- Serve as a health and safety resource for others, including co-workers, workplace health and safety committees, unions and employers.
- Identify workplace hazards.
- Investigate the underlying causes of injuries.
- Promote solutions to health and safety problems.
- Support the successful return-to-work of injured employees.
 Workers interested in becoming WOSH Specialists attend a free 24-hour course where they learn key occupational safety and health concepts. They also learn how to take a leadership role in the workplace. The curriculum includes core modules addressing topics relevant to workers in a variety of California workplaces, as well as a series of supplemental modules covering specific topics and hazards.
The training program is offered in English, Spanish and Chinese
and is provided free of charge. It is taught through a statewide
network of trainers coordinated by the Northern California Resource
Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and by the Southern
California Resource Center at the University of California, Los
Angeles.
The program provides training to workers who can take on health and safety responsibilities, such as serving on a health and safety committee or as a designated safety representative, and/or training other workers.
Contact Fredda Olivares at (510) 643-8087 or e-mail olivares@berkeley.edu for a list of upcoming classes.
For an online class Registration Form (PDF format), click here.
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